A recent spike in violence at some of Jerusalem’s key holy sites has left Jordan in a difficult position vis-a-vis its nearly century-old custodial obligations in the city. Following clashes at ...

Jordan on Tuesday welcomed taken unanimously by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee to keep the Old City of Jerusalem and its walls on the List of World Heritage in Danger.The decision, adopted during ...

Jordan's king has reaffirmed his support for establishing a Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem, highlighting his differences with the Trump administration on a central issue in the Israeli ...

Jordan has been the official custodian of Christian and Muslim holy places in Jerusalem since 1924, when Sharif Hussein, the initiator of the Great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, was ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

As Jordan joins a military campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria, tensions in Jerusalem pose a potentially bigger risk to a nation only slightly scathed by the turmoil sweeping the ...

That resolution was not taken under Chapter VII, it is not legally binding and the principle of the ‘inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war’ to Jerusalem falls first on Jordan ...

The Dubious Land Deal Threatening East Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter In April 2023, the community learned that an Israeli real estate company would soon construct a hotel on one-fourth of their land.

The Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs welcomed the unanimous adoption on Tuesday by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee at its 47th session in Paris of a decision to maintain the Old City of ...